Law at Work - October 2018

Features

Permanent health insurance and termination of employment: current attitudes and recent observations

Issues may arise where an insurer or employer wants to end provision of permanent health insurance (PHI) benefit to an employee. We explore these together with how loss of income following dismissal is calculated for employees in receipt of PHI.

E-signatures: dragging the law into the 21st century?

A new consultation has been launched to bring English law on the use of e-signatures into the modern age. This is relevant for all companies who already or would like to execute their documents, including employment contracts, via e-signature.

Employers get first glimpse of post-Brexit visa system

From 2021, EU workers moving to the UK will need a visa and Tier 2 sponsorship arrangements will apply to EU and non-EU citizens alike. Will the government invest sufficient resources into the system to manage a higher volume of applications?

Case law update

Employee's notice of resignation anticipated internal transfer and was not a notice of termination of employment

An employee sent a letter to her employer giving "one month's notice". After considering all the circumstances, the EAT held that she was referring to a transfer to another department, and was not a resignation. Why was this the case?

The honesty of claimant answers bad faith question in victimisation claims

An employee who brought a grievance and was later removed from a training programme had been victimised. He believed (although unreasonably) the event he was complaining of to be true, and so was not acting in 'bad faith'.